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Top 50 Media (Entertainment) Angel Investors in Ireland (October 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Ray Nolan
Angel
4 Ireland Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Web Development, Enterprise Software $110k–$2.2M
Shane Naughton
Angel
3 Ireland, United States Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown SaaS, Software, Apps $971k–$3M
Peter O'Grady Walshe
Angel
2 Ireland Seed Video, Publishing, Social Media
Nigel Byrne
Angel
2 Ireland Seed Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality $847k–$1.7M
Tom Kennedy
Angel
2 Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed Travel, Software, Video $869k–$3.4M
Michael Dwyer
Angel
2 Ireland Seed, Angel Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality $847k–$1.7M
Hal Philipp
Angel
2 Ireland Seed, Angel News, SaaS, Big Data
Eamon Leonard
Angel
2 United States, Ireland Seed, Angel, Series A Apps, Software, Messaging $681k–$1M
Carl McCann
Angel
2 Ireland Venture - Series Unknown Video, Analytics, Machine Learning $1.5M–$3.9M
Ray Coyle
Angel
2 Ireland Venture - Series Unknown Video, Analytics, Machine Learning $1.5M–$3.9M
Gareth Lambe
Angel
2 Ireland Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown Mobile Apps, Apps, Tourism $509k–$1.7M
Colm Lyon
Angel
2 Ireland, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Local, Guides, Sports $88k–$708k
Per Brilioth
Angel
1 Sweden, United Kingdom, Pakistan Series B, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Apps, Software, Health Care $129k–$85M
Joi Ito
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, Hong Kong Seed, Series A, Angel Internet, Software, Video $850k–$18M
Tim Cederman-Haysom
Angel
1 United States, Ireland Seed News, SaaS, Audio $85k–$1.4M
Tony Smurfit
Angel
1 Ireland, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Publishing, SaaS, Video $3M–$4M
Bobby Healy
Angel
1 Ireland Angel, Series A Travel, Local, Guides
Julien Nguyen
Angel
1 India, Latvia, Germany Seed, Series A Internet, Social Media, Music $1.8M–$9.3M
Harper Reed
Angel
1 Ireland Angel Communities, Social Media, Online Portals
Angus McMillian
Angel
1 Ireland Venture - Series Unknown News, SaaS, Big Data
Sam Perry
Angel
1 Ireland, United States Convertible Note, Venture - Series Unknown Social Media, Apps, News
Jim Mullins
Angel
1 Ireland Venture - Series Unknown News, SaaS, Big Data
Barry Pitcher
Angel
1 Ireland Seed Video, Publishing, Social Media
Jon Staenberg
Angel
1 United States, Ireland Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Legal $1M–$6M
Blaine Cook
Angel
1 United States, Ireland Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Audio, Video, Events
Cem Sertoglu
Angel
1 Turkey, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Marketplace, Financial Services $500k–$80M
Vishal Aasdhir
Angel
1 Ireland Seed SaaS, Web Apps, Legal Tech
Scott Chacon
Angel
1 Germany, United States, France Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Health Care, Open Source
Matt Biddulph
Angel
1 Ireland Seed Audio, Video, Events
Johnny Walke
Angel
1 Ireland Seed Photo Sharing
Charles Williams
Angel
1 Ireland Seed Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality
Kumar Malavalli
Angel
1 United States, Ireland Seed, Angel, Series A Software, Enterprise Software, Internet $1M–$2.6M
Sean Blanchfield
Angel
1 Ireland Convertible Note Software, Analytics, Advertising
Chris Adelsbach
Angel
1 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Software $118k–$19M
Lachy Groom
Angel
1 United States, India, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $2.2M–$80M
Esther Dyson
Angel
1 United States, Egypt, Canada Seed, Series A, Angel Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence $300k–$16M
Jesper Brok
Angel
1 Denmark, Ireland Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Software, E-Learning, Recruiting $400k–$425k
Matthew Le Merle
Angel
1 Ireland, United States Seed, Series A iOS, Apps, Local
Graham Stirling
Angel
1 Ireland Seed Art, RFID, Mobile
Niall Harbison
Angel
1 Ireland Seed Photo Sharing
Joshua Schachter
Angel
1 United States, Japan, Canada Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Mobile, Internet $635k–$15M
Armando Biondi
Angel
1 United States, Spain, Ireland Seed, Venture - Series Unknown SaaS, Software, Big Data $150k–$2.8M
Julian Kulkarni
Angel
1 Ireland Seed Photo Sharing
James Douglas
Angel
1 Ireland Seed Events, Software, Publishing
Ryan Morrison
Angel
1 Ireland Seed SaaS, Web Apps, Legal Tech
George Kilpatrick
Angel
1 Ireland SaaS, Video, Collaboration
Anil Kokaram
Angel
1 Ireland SaaS, Video, Collaboration
Brian Caulfield
Angel
1 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Series A Software, Mobile, Apps $110k–$7.2M
Mehmet Onarcan
Angel
1 Turkey, Germany, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Social Media, Apps, Mobile
Tom Preston-Werner
Angel
1 United States, Germany, Singapore Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $337k–$30M
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Ray Nolan
Angel · 4 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Ray Nolan is the Founder and CEO of eDesk. He previously worked at HostelWorld as a Founder. Ray Nolan attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Web Development, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $110k–$2.2M; Angel $575k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • dimply — The experience & engagement platform for financial enterprises.
  • Kinzen — Kinzen's blend of human skill and scalable technology enables trust and safety professionals and policy makers to get ahead of emerging threats, detect policy violations faster and take the proportionate and appropriate action.
  • Cohort — Cohort helps its users find the people they need through the people they already know through social media. Cohort is an Ireland-based company that was founded in 2015 by Eamon Leonard.
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Shane Naughton
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Shane Naughton - Founding Partner and Board of Directors @ On The Stage

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Ireland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $971k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Trustev — Stop online fraud with Trustev, a new approach.
  • NewsWhip — NewsWhip is the world's most comprehensive content discovery and analytics database. Their suite of products give customers the ability to predict which stories will be important today, and understand how to create successful content over the long term.NewsWhip serves over 500 of the world's leading publishers, brands and agencies,including: Reebok, the Washington Post, Conde Nast, Google, MasterCard, BuzzFeed, Time Inc., and more. NewsWhip Spike is their real-time, predictive content discovery dashboard — offering a one-stop view of what's important across both the web and 5 social networks. Spike is the only tool that discovers stories within 2 minutes of publishing, and predicts their spread across social.NewsWhip Analytics is a database of how audiences have engaged with stories across every social network over the long term. NewsWhip customers use Analytics to benchmark how they stack up against competitors and track engagement trends around events and seasons.
  • Spring Moves — Spring Moves’ mission is to make working out as interesting, enjoyable, and addictive as humanly possible. They harness the power of music and rhythm to turn casual runners into athletes and newbies into pros. It was founded in 2012 and is based in New York.
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Peter O'Grady Walshe
Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 2 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Peter O'Grady Walshe - Chairman @ VideoElephant

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Video, Publishing, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • VideoElephant — VideoElephant offers ready-to-monetize video content solutions to advertising technology providers, publishers, and advertisers. Its online marketplace enables users to access a library of video contents comprising various short and long-form videos, such as TV shows, movies, documentaries, and short videos. the company was founded in 2012 and isheadquartered in Dublin.
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Nigel Byrne
Angel · 2 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Nigel Byrne is an angel Investor and a former group CTO of Ooredoo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $847k–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Imvizar — Transform your buildings, office spaces, visitor attractions, and parks with an immersive and visual storytelling experience using augmented reality. Discover unique ways to tell your story at Imvizar.
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Tom Kennedy
Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 2 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Tom Kennedy is the Founder of Hostelworld. Tom Kennedy attended Technological University Dublin.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Software, Video
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $869k–$3.4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Barespace — Barespace provides end-to-end solutions that manage, market, and grow your beauty business.
  • MARC — MARC is an AI startup dedicated to real estate asset management.
  • Meetingsbooker.com — Remote working, without the isolation. Empower your teams to book workspaces, meetings and group stays without sacrificing safety or control. 150,000 spaces in 149 countries.
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Michael Dwyer
Angel · 2 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Michael Dwyer is a founder of Pigsback.com.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $847k–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Imvizar — Transform your buildings, office spaces, visitor attractions, and parks with an immersive and visual storytelling experience using augmented reality. Discover unique ways to tell your story at Imvizar.
  • Bounce Insights — Bounce Insights is a digital consumer research platform. It provides a direct link between brands and any consumer they needed to speak to by maintaining a community of active, engaged respondents on their mobile app.
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Hal Philipp
Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 2 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Hal Philipp - Principal Partner @ Meridian Growth Capital

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, SaaS, Big Data
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • NewsWhip — The only real-time media monitoring platform that predicts the stories and topics that will matter in the hours ahead.
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Eamon Leonard
Angel · , Dublin, Ireland · 2 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Eamon Leonard is the Co Organizer of This Next Thing. He previously worked at Boundless as a Co-Founder. Eamon Leonard attended Technological University Dublin.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Software, Messaging
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $681k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • XMTP — XMTP is a decentralized and quantum-resistant messaging protocol for builders.
  • Cohort — Cohort helps its users find the people they need through the people they already know through social media. Cohort is an Ireland-based company that was founded in 2015 by Eamon Leonard.
  • PicStash — They offer a valuable but inexpensive PR tool, ensuring the maximum exposure of your Brand with minimum costs to your business. They make it easier for journalists to view your latest products and press releases, and share them with the rest of Ireland and beyond.
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Carl McCann
Angel · 2 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Carl McCann

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Video, Analytics, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Venture - Series Unknown $1.5M–$3.9M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Everseen — Everseen's Vision AI stops retail shrink, boosts productivity and protects customer experience. Trusted by 11 of the world's top 20 grocery retailers.
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Ray Coyle
Angel · 2 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Ray Coyle

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Video, Analytics, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Venture - Series Unknown $1.5M–$3.9M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Everseen — Everseen's Vision AI stops retail shrink, boosts productivity and protects customer experience. Trusted by 11 of the world's top 20 grocery retailers.
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Gareth Lambe
Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 2 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Gareth Lambe is the Chief Executive Officer of Medihive. He previously worked at Meta as a Board Of Directors. Gareth Lambe attended the University College Dublin.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile Apps, Apps, Tourism
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $847k–$1.7M; Angel $509k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Imvizar — Transform your buildings, office spaces, visitor attractions, and parks with an immersive and visual storytelling experience using augmented reality. Discover unique ways to tell your story at Imvizar.
  • CleverCards — The Platform for Contactless Cards. The CleverGift real-time payment platform offers gift cards, expenses, employee incentives, and travel foreign exchange.
  • Bounce Insights — Bounce Insights is a digital consumer research platform. It provides a direct link between brands and any consumer they needed to speak to by maintaining a community of active, engaged respondents on their mobile app.
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Colm Lyon
Angel · 2 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Colm Lyon - Founder and CEO @ Fire Financial Services

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Local, Guides, Sports
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Ireland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $88k–$708k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • dbTwang — dbTwang is building the web’s favourite community for those who share a passion for guitars. dbTwang will provide a trusted place on the web where guitar players and collectors can keep important information about their instruments securely and in complete confidence. dbTwang will also provides a unique platform that will enables members toshare information selectively in a trusted and safe environment with fellow members and to complete secure trades by mutual consent. We will watch, develop and support the community and earn revenues by charging members a small subscription each month for premium services such as being part of a trusted network, guitar valuations and group insurance as well as relevant premium content.
  • Axe — AI phone agents that handle millions of calls. Build and manage voice, email, and chat agents.
  • LikeWhere — LikeWhere's service helps travel brands identify the individual interests of their customers, so they can personalise their digital engagement, generating more revenues. LikeWhere utilises ‘affinity-marketing’ techniques deployed by brands including Amazon, Spotify & Netflix (‘others like you also liked this’), enabling travel brands tooptimise their retail strategy.
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Per Brilioth
Angel · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Per Brilioth - CEO @ VNV Global

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Series B, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: Sweden, United Kingdom, Pakistan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Round size: Seed $129k–$5.7M; Series B $7.1M–$85M; Venture - Series Unknown $1M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Arro — Discover the shared daily operating system that helps you get more from life and work. Get to Day Zero together.
  • Surfboard — Get Dialpad Workforce Management (WFM) software for accurate forecasting, demand-driven scheduling, fair shift planning, and more.
  • Supernormal Greens — Supernormal Greens uses vertical cultivation powered by 100 percent renewable energy and LED lighting, enabling year-round production without pesticides. The company grows plants hydroponically in water, anchored by sterile coconut-fiber pods, and circulates nutrients in response to plant needs. Its system recycles water to achieve significantreductions in water use, and it applies data-driven optimization via AI and machine learning to improve its processes.
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Joi Ito
Angel · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Joichi Ito is a Parttime Lecturer at Chiba Institute of Technology. he attended Keio University in 2018.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, Video
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Seed $850k–$8.3M; Angel $850k–$3M; Series A $4M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Toku — Seamless employment, built for Web3. WorkDAO is the only Web3-native employment service that provides legal employment, token payroll, and employee benefits that make a difference, globally. We're building the infrastructure to scale DAOs and Web3 organizations so you can focus on building.
  • Butlr — Butlr is an AI people-sensing platform using body heat to detect occupancy, headcount, body posture, and activity, and generate accurate, real-time, and historical spatial insights for healthcare and sustainable buildings. Their sensor technology detects human presence anonymously using low-resolution thermal data and advanced AI and machinelearning.
  • Kotoba Technologies — Kotoba is a frontier voice AI company building a real-time speech model and simultaneous translation technology.
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Tim Cederman-Haysom
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Tim Cederman-Haysom is Product leader at Pyn.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, SaaS, Audio
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $85k–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Adioso — Adioso is a better search and booking app for leisure travel.It allows users to:* search without constraints on destinations & dates* follow destinations or search terms to receive deals, trip recommendations, and other content to help them plan and book their trip.Its key benefits are:* Travelers find it much easier to choosethe very best travel options available* Airlines & suppliers can focus messages and offers at highly qualified customers.Founded in Australia in 2008 by Fenn Bailey and Tom Howard, Adioso was in the Winter ‘09 class of Y Combinator, and has received seed funding from Silicon Valley and travel industry investors.As of March 2012, Adioso has a team of eight engineers and designers in Australia and the US, and is moving rapidly towards the launch of some major new product features and global airline coverage.
  • Lanyrd — Eventbrite - Discover the Best Local Events & Things to Do
  • OwnLocal — We help local media companies to power their digital services by automatically converting traditional print ads into powerful online marketing campaigns.
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Tony Smurfit
Angel · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Tony Smurfit is the Founder & CEO of Smurfit Kappa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Publishing, SaaS, Video
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Ireland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ufurnish.com — ufurnish.com is the home for furniture discovery. Search, discover, compare and shop furniture online across the entire retail market on one website.
  • Dataships — Dataships uses top level data privacy software to help your brand, no matter your location.
  • VideoElephant — VideoElephant offers ready-to-monetize video content solutions to advertising technology providers, publishers, and advertisers. Its online marketplace enables users to access a library of video contents comprising various short and long-form videos, such as TV shows, movies, documentaries, and short videos. the company was founded in 2012 and isheadquartered in Dublin.
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Bobby Healy
Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Bobby Healy is an experienced inventor and technology entrepreneur specialising in booking engine software. He joined CarTrawler in 2005 having begun his career building computer games for Nintendo at 16 years of age. Prior to joining CarTrawler, Bobby founded Eland Technologies which he later sold to airline technology giant SITA and remained asCTO until 2005. His booking solutions are now in use by 80% of the world's top 20 airlines. Bobby continues to be an avid computer programmer and is a frequent speaker on the international circuit on subjects related to technology in the airline industry, ancillary revenue and online distribution.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Local, Guides
  • Stage:Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Roomex — Want to make business travel easier? Search, book, manage, and pay for all your business hotel bookings in one place.
  • Coindrum — Coindrum provides coin machines to spend your coin jars. No more manual counting, sorting or bagging!
  • LikeWhere — LikeWhere's service helps travel brands identify the individual interests of their customers, so they can personalise their digital engagement, generating more revenues. LikeWhere utilises ‘affinity-marketing’ techniques deployed by brands including Amazon, Spotify & Netflix (‘others like you also liked this’), enabling travel brands tooptimise their retail strategy.
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Julien Nguyen
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Julien Nguyen has 30 years of operational, entrepreneurial and early stage investment experience.Prior to NanoDimension, Julien was a Managing Director at Applied Materials Ventures and Concept Ventures. Julien led investments in companies such as Infinera (Nasdaq: INFN), M-Stream (acq’d by Broadcom), Devicescape, Grandis (acq’d by Samsung),Takumi (acq’d by Sagantec), Envis (acq’d by Magma), with co-investors including August Capital, Benchmark, Kleiner Perkins, Matrix Partners, Sevin Rosen, Sigma Partners. Prior to his venture capital activities, Julien founded or was part of the founding team for four startups: Ezlogin (acquired by 724 Solutions), Novita Communications (acquired by Planetweb), E-Motions (acquired by Sigma Designs), Radius (IPO). He holds 21 patents issued in the US.Julien received his postgraduate degree from Telecom Paris (France) and his Master of Science from Ecole Polytechnique (France).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Social Media, Music
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: India, Latvia, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$9.3M; Series A $1.8M–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • POWWOW — Studio POWWOW is a transmedia and Animation Production company based in Dublin, Ireland. We specialize in the creation, development and production of entertainment content solutions across multiple platforms, including mobile, web and TV. Studio POWWOW is currently in development of its first major cross platform entertainment IP ‘The World ofShipAntics.’ The World of ShipAntics is an animated comedy adventure game being developed for iOS & Android devices. We will be developing The World of ShipAntics into Appisodes, a TV series, and more.
  • OQmented — Outstanding MEMS-based laser scanning for top-notch 3D environment perception and AR projections. Unmatched in terms of size, performance and reliability.
  • POPS Worldwide — POPS Worldwide is the leading digital entertainment company in Southeast Asia. With over 4 billion monthly views of its music and entertainment content, POPS is the fastest growing digital entertainment media company with hundreds of artists, content creators and partners from broadcast television, publishing and production in the POPS Network.POPS also produces a wide variety of original content for its industry-leading owned and operated channels like POPS Music, POPS Kids, POPS TV, Beauty Me, HerVoice and CoolTV that target highly sought after demographics: teens, kids, women and men.
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Harper Reed
Angel · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Harper Reed is the CEO of General Galactic Corporation. He previously worked at Braintree as the Head of Commerce. He attended Cornell College.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Communities, Social Media, Online Portals
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cohort — Cohort helps its users find the people they need through the people they already know through social media. Cohort is an Ireland-based company that was founded in 2015 by Eamon Leonard.
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Angus McMillian
Angel · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Angus McMillian

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, SaaS, Big Data
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NewsWhip — NewsWhip is the world's most comprehensive content discovery and analytics database. Their suite of products give customers the ability to predict which stories will be important today, and understand how to create successful content over the long term.NewsWhip serves over 500 of the world's leading publishers, brands and agencies,including: Reebok, the Washington Post, Conde Nast, Google, MasterCard, BuzzFeed, Time Inc., and more. NewsWhip Spike is their real-time, predictive content discovery dashboard — offering a one-stop view of what's important across both the web and 5 social networks. Spike is the only tool that discovers stories within 2 minutes of publishing, and predicts their spread across social.NewsWhip Analytics is a database of how audiences have engaged with stories across every social network over the long term. NewsWhip customers use Analytics to benchmark how they stack up against competitors and track engagement trends around events and seasons.
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Sam Perry
Angel · Menlo Park, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Sam Perry - President @ Ascendance Ventures

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social Media, Apps, News
  • Stage:Convertible Note, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Ireland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hyperkey — Hyperkey is building the world's first proprietary library of collections based on human visual expressions. Our social network gives users, and branded content creators, the ability to make Gifs and Stickers shared in their chat conversations discoverable to the whole world. With our keyboard - or our iMessage extension - users expresstheir feelings with their friends in chat. These expressions are added to their public collections, and can be discovered by other users and followers instantly on Hyperkey, and then recycled in their own chats.Hyperkey works with all popular communication platforms, including iMessage, What's App, Facebook, Twitter and more.
  • NewsWhip — NewsWhip is the world's most comprehensive content discovery and analytics database. Their suite of products give customers the ability to predict which stories will be important today, and understand how to create successful content over the long term.NewsWhip serves over 500 of the world's leading publishers, brands and agencies,including: Reebok, the Washington Post, Conde Nast, Google, MasterCard, BuzzFeed, Time Inc., and more. NewsWhip Spike is their real-time, predictive content discovery dashboard — offering a one-stop view of what's important across both the web and 5 social networks. Spike is the only tool that discovers stories within 2 minutes of publishing, and predicts their spread across social.NewsWhip Analytics is a database of how audiences have engaged with stories across every social network over the long term. NewsWhip customers use Analytics to benchmark how they stack up against competitors and track engagement trends around events and seasons.
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Jim Mullins
Angel · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Jim Mullins

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, SaaS, Big Data
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NewsWhip — NewsWhip is the world's most comprehensive content discovery and analytics database. Their suite of products give customers the ability to predict which stories will be important today, and understand how to create successful content over the long term.NewsWhip serves over 500 of the world's leading publishers, brands and agencies,including: Reebok, the Washington Post, Conde Nast, Google, MasterCard, BuzzFeed, Time Inc., and more. NewsWhip Spike is their real-time, predictive content discovery dashboard — offering a one-stop view of what's important across both the web and 5 social networks. Spike is the only tool that discovers stories within 2 minutes of publishing, and predicts their spread across social.NewsWhip Analytics is a database of how audiences have engaged with stories across every social network over the long term. NewsWhip customers use Analytics to benchmark how they stack up against competitors and track engagement trends around events and seasons.
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Barry Pitcher
Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Barry Pitcher

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Video, Publishing, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • VideoElephant — VideoElephant offers ready-to-monetize video content solutions to advertising technology providers, publishers, and advertisers. Its online marketplace enables users to access a library of video contents comprising various short and long-form videos, such as TV shows, movies, documentaries, and short videos. the company was founded in 2012 and isheadquartered in Dublin.
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Jon Staenberg
Angel · Seattle, Washington, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Jon Staenberg has been working with venture backed companies for more than a decade, and has participated in over 100 deals. In this capacity he has started his own company, worked full-time in other companies, and consulted to over 50 startups. He is one of the most experienced venture capitalists in the Pacific Northwest, having raised two funds totaling over $100 million. After working in the marketing area at Microsoft for six years, he joined Virtual i-O as VP of Sales & Marketing. During the last eight years, he has been engaged in business planning, business development, financial planning and fundraising, recruiting and mergers and acquisitions work for a variety of Silicon Valley and Seattle-based startups. Jon serves on the boards of Class.com and Micropath, and is on the advisory boards of New Vine Logistics, Vista Broadband, Prime Advantage, Time Domain, Atlantes.com, OneName, Syncronex, and uReach.com. Jon graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University, where he received his B.S., M.A., and M.B.A. While at Stanford, he started and ran two successful companies. Jon grew up in Omaha, Nebraska and is a hardcore Nebraska Cornhusker fan. In his spare time he collects sports ticket stubs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Legal
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.3M; Series A $1.4M–$6M; Series B $3.5M–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Proxifile — Our mission is to use technology and design to level the playing field for small businesses and the common person in a world where typically on the wealthiest people and large corporations can afford expensive counsel.
  • ZenLedger — ZenLedger is an analytics startup that simplifies cryptocurrency taxes to help investors and tax professionals in portfolio management. Built by expert industry veterans in technology, finance, and accounting, it allows users to easily import crypto transactions, calculate gains and income, and prepare tax returns.Its automated platform helpsinvestors and tax professionals reduce the uncertainty, frustration, and manual grunt work of creating personal crypto brokerage accounts.
  • Legalpad — Legalpad makes work visa applications faster, easier, and better for startups by pairing smart software with human support. Legalpad solves the work visa problem for startups and helps people to pursue employment across borders, beginning with startups. Legalpad was founded by Sara Itucas.
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Blaine Cook
Angel · Nelson, British Columbia, Canada · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Blaine Cook is the former Architect at Twitter. Before his departure he focused on building and maintaining Twitter’s Jabber-based real-time backend infrastructure that tracks and distributes millions of updates every day to users on the Web, instant messaging, and SMS.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Audio, Video, Events
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Typedream — Create stunning landing pages with just 1 sentence with AI.
  • Little Bird — Little Bird powers fast and focused engagement for modern marketers in tech, entertainment, and financial services. Its solution helps marketers overcome the noise and chaos of the social web, to map and engage with the most influential subject matter experts online. Little Bird helps marketing organizations build social capital, expand theirrelevant reach, and grow their businesses.
  • Planetary — Planetary is a humane decentralized social network. We've built an open protocol and platform for social media and software. A place where you control your data and relationships. This new platform does for social media what open source did for software, creating a common platform for all to build upon secure scuttlebutt.Social media is thepublic sphere and it needs to be owned and controlled by the people who create it.
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Cem Sertoglu
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Cem Sertoglu is an internet and technology venture capitalist and entrepreneur. He is currently a Managing Partner at Bek Ventures, a European venture investment firm focusing on technology and health technology companies.He is also a managing partner at Young Turk Ventures, an internet-focused investment firm. From 2008 to 2009, Sertoglu was apartner at iLab Ventures, the venture capital arm of AccessTurkey Capital Group that is focused on early-stage through late-stage growth equity investments, primarily in on-line consumer services companies and technology-driven business services companies in Turkey.Prior to these, Sertoglu founded SelectMinds, a provider of cloud-based, social talent sourcing apps that allow companies to use social networks such as Facebook to recruit employees. He served as its CEO from 1999 to 2005. The company was bought by Oracle in 2012.Sertoglu's investment highlights include: GittiGidiyor, the first major Turkish internet exit to eBay in 2011; YemekSepeti, the leading online meal delivery marketplace in Turkey; Grupanya, Turkey’s leading daily deal business; and Wikimart.ru, a leading Russian e-commerce platform. Other investments include: HipWay, CivicSolar, Lofty, Lime&Tonic, Gezlong and Vivense Home & Living.Sertoglu attended the University of Texas at Austin and received his bachelor's degree in Economics in 1993. He also attended Robert College from 1982 to 1989. He publishes a blog on Venture Capital and technology, titled SortiPreneur.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$2.5M; Series A $1.5M–$45M; Series B $5M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HipWay — Hipway is an online travel company maintaining two websites - hiplcub.ru and hipway.ru. Hipclub.ru - is a private online travel club running 10-15 flash sale deals per week. The deals include hotel stays and hotel+flight packages. Hipway.ru - is a travel package specialist offering wide range of hotel+flight packages of Russian touroperators. Hipway recieved angel funding from superangels such as Michael van Swaaij and Chamath Palihapitya in 2010.
  • idemama — Idemama is an online platform that provides its users with web and graphic design services. It is based in Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Lime&Tonic — Consumer demand for unique ways to spend scarce leisure time is increasing. Hospitality merchants (particularly restaurants) struggle to attract and retain consumers. Delivery of services is not personalized due to exceedingly high labor costs. Via mobile, L&T curates online marketplace focusing on discovery (vs. search) of the bestculinary experiences and unique activities. $2.0 trillion leisure sector with a nice focus on the $160bn fine dining and $227bn activities segments.Proven success with leading merchants including Mandarin Oriental, Intercontinental, Four Seasons, Park Hyatt. Over 1,600 experiences created since company launch.www.limeandtonic.com
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Vishal Aasdhir
Angel · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Vishal Aasdhir

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Web Apps, Legal Tech
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Ceartas DMCA — Ceartas is the leader in piracy protection for creators, brands & enterprise. Powered by AI, we have the highest removal rate in the industry
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Scott Chacon
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Scott Chacon is a Git evangelist and Ruby developer currently as the Cofounder & CEO of Chatterbug. He is the author of the Pro Git book by Apress, the Git Internals Peepcode PDF as well as the maintainer of the Git homepage and the Git Community Book. Source

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Open Source
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Germany, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Bloom — Bloom empowers everyone to be their own therapist through interactive video-guided therapy sessions.
  • Flower Labs — A unified approach to federated learning, analytics, and evaluation. Federate any workload, any ML framework, and any programming language.
  • Bloom Health Partners — Bloom Health Partners has been shutdown.
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Matt Biddulph
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Matt Biddulph is the Software Engineer at Apple in 2019. He attended University of Oxford.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Audio, Video, Events
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Lanyrd — Eventbrite - Discover the Best Local Events & Things to Do
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Johnny Walke
Angel · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Johnny Walke

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Photo Sharing
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • PicStash — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
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Charles Williams
Angel · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Charles Williams is an angel investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Tourism, Mobile Apps, Augmented Reality
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Imvizar — Transform your buildings, office spaces, visitor attractions, and parks with an immersive and visual storytelling experience using augmented reality. Discover unique ways to tell your story at Imvizar.
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Kumar Malavalli
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Kumar Malavalli is the co-author and driving force behind Fibre Channel, an evolutionary technology that enabled the development of production-class storage area networks (SAN's). Co-founder and former CTO of Brocade Communications; Currently Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of InMage Systems.In February 2003, Kumar was inducted into theSilicon Valley Engineering Council Hall of Fame for his contributions to technology. He also received the Gene Milligan Award for Effective Committee Management from the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) for chairing an INCITS committee that developed 17 standards in the area of Storage Area Networks. In 2012 the Computer History Museum published his work on Fibre Channel standards in the T11 Accredited Standards Committee.Kumar's philanthropy in the field of education extends from digital learning centers in rural India to American institutions of higher education. He has established the Kumar Malavalli Endowed Chair in Storage Systems Research at University of California Santa Cruz, co-founded the Indus Scholastic Management Services and serves as a trustee of the Indus International Schools.He currently invests in and mentors numerous startups in US, Canada and India, served as a member of the Board of Directors of The Indus Entrepreneurs Silicon Valley Chapter (TiE), and is a trustee of the American India Foundation (AIF). In 2012, Kumar became a trustee of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$2.6M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • POWWOW — Studio POWWOW is a transmedia and Animation Production company based in Dublin, Ireland. We specialize in the creation, development and production of entertainment content solutions across multiple platforms, including mobile, web and TV. Studio POWWOW is currently in development of its first major cross platform entertainment IP ‘The World ofShipAntics.’ The World of ShipAntics is an animated comedy adventure game being developed for iOS & Android devices. We will be developing The World of ShipAntics into Appisodes, a TV series, and more.
  • PowWow Mobile — Redefine how work is done in the digital era. Our SmartUX, the rapid mobile app platform for the enterprise, simplifies and extends business apps to mobile.
  • Wedding Party — Inspiration & ideas for your big day
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Sean Blanchfield
Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Sean Blanchfield studied at Trinity College, Dublin and Trinity College, Dublin.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Analytics, Advertising
  • Stage:Convertible Note
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PageFair — PageFair’s mission is to sustain the open web by re-establishing a fair deal between users and content creators. The company does this by helping website owners and publishers detect and measure adblock, and protecting advertising inventory from being blocked.The company has two products: 1) PageFair Analytics, which is used by thousands ofpublishers for free, and measures adblock on over 11 billion pageviews per month, and 2) PageFair Ads, which serves advertising in a manner that adblockers are unable to circumvent, and solves the speed, privacy, and UX issues that cause adblocking in the first place.PageFair's founders personally experienced the damage adblocking can do to a website. While they recognize that visitors need to defend themselves from distracting, intrusive, inappropriate, disingenuous or malicious advertising, the rise of adblocking is now leading to the death of quality free websites.PageFair is an international startup based in Dublin, Ireland. Founded in 2012, the company was initially funded by its founders with additional seed capital from Tribal Ventures, Frontline Ventures, and Enterprise Ireland. Thoudands of publishers now use PageFair to measure the extent to which they are affected by adblocking and to display advertising to adblockers.PageFair is the global authority on adblocking trends, cited in The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Economist, Advertising Age, and others.
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Chris Adelsbach
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 322
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $118k–$1.9M; Series A $4.3M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bourn — Bourn's technology is designed to automate cash flow management, offering SMEs fast access to capital.
  • Alfa AI — Alfa AI sources, screens and shortlists candidates so your team only spends time on the people worth meeting.
  • Emblematic — The first AI-driven Agentic Automation platform, designed to fully automate and enhance the accuracy of Finance Operations, including Bookkeeping, IFRS/GAAP Compliance, Reconciliations, and more.
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Lachy Groom
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups, 16 in the past 12 months

Lachy Groom is an Australian entrepreneur, investor, and technology executive. He joined Stripe as its 30th employee and later served as Head of Stripe Issuing, where he worked across product, growth, operations, and international expansion. He founded LGF, an investment firm focused on early-stage technology companies, and has invested in companies including Figma, Notion, Ramp, and Lattice. He is also a co-founder of Physical Intelligence, a company developing artificial intelligence systems for robots.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 230
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$10M; Series A $8.5M–$37M; Series B $20M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Airbound — Welcome to Airbound, where we're reaching the unreachable with our zero infrastructure deliveries. Discover our innovative solutions for efficient and sustainable delivery systems.
  • alteon energy — Alteon develops long-endurance aircraft and unmanned aerial systems for extended-duration flight. Its designs combine solar power and dynamic soaring to support continuous operation.
  • Volantis — Volantis specializes in developing AI-driven semiconductor solutions. The company focuses on creating advanced systems that support high-performance computing for various applications, including networking, data centers, and edge computing. Volantis provides integrated hardware and software platforms designed to optimize processing power, energyefficiency, and scalability. Their technology aims to enhance the capabilities of existing infrastructure, making it adaptable to emerging computational demands. The company's solutions cater to industries that require robust, efficient computing power at scale.
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Esther Dyson
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Esther Dyson - Founder @ Way to Wellville

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Egypt, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 93
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$4M; Angel $330k–$2.9M; Series A $1.5M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • The Beans — The Beans offers a software application platform that creates personalized cash flow plans designed for its users. The Beans is Simplifying the path to financial balance through design and technology so that people can focus on what they love.
  • NextSense — Introducing NextSense Smartbuds: EEG-powered earbuds that go beyond sleep tracking. Backed by science, Smartbuds provide real-time insights to help you achieve deeper, more restorative sleep. Comfortable, intuitive, and easy to use, Smartbuds empower you to wake up your best self.
  • Openwater — OPENWATER - THE FUTURE OF NEURAL DIAGNOSTICS IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND.
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Jesper Brok
Angel · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Jesper Brok is the Founder of Tjommi and Legalfinder.com.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Learning, Recruiting
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Denmark, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $400k–$425k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Healper — An online matching platform where you get matched with the mental health tools and psychologist who fits your personality, demography, and personal factors, giving you the best chance for effective therapy. The platform includes an online survey, psychologist profiles, booking and payment systems, reminders, sessions, and feedback systems. Webelieve better mental health starts with having a therapist in whom you trust, have chemistry with, and have relevant expertise. Healper will make a better match between you and the therapist based on professional and personal factors through a safe and smooth user journey. We believe a better match means better therapy, empowering you to get more out of your life.
  • Yard — The community for organisers rebuilding their local tech community
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Matthew Le Merle
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Matthew Le Merle is a Managing Partner of Keiretsu Capital and Fifth Era (www.fifthera.com). Matthew was formerly the Co-President of Keiretsu Forum in San Francisco and is an expert on digitization having advised leading technology companies including eBay, Google, HP, Microsoft and PayPal on how to drive and benefit from emerging digital valuepropositions.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Apps, Local
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Ireland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Soundwave — The Global Premium Domain SoundWave.com + @SoundWave Twitter (X) Handle is currently available for acquisition. Contact us now for details.
  • Concept Art House — Concept Art House powers Web3 projects for the biggest brands and IP in the World.
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Graham Stirling
Angel · Gibraltar, Gibraltar, Gibraltar · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Graham Stirling is the Manager - Investments at Veddis.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, RFID, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ticket ABC — Ticket ABC is a white label ticketing software and venue management solution used by over 120 venues, promoters, artists in 4 countries. Brand your account to have the same look and feel as your website, better understand your sales and customers with their graphical reporting tool and integrate with social media to sell tickets within anyFacebook page. Fanalytics (Ticket ABC's customer analytics tool) transforms all the customer data generated from selling tickets into a snapshot of your business so you know who your top customers are, where they are from and the ability to communicate and reward them for their loyalty.
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Niall Harbison
Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Niall Harbison is based out of Dublin, Ireland and is the CEO and Founder of Fancy and Furry Pets Care. Niall previously worked at iFoods as a Managing Director. Niall Harbison attended Technological University Dublin.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Photo Sharing
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PicStash — They offer a valuable but inexpensive PR tool, ensuring the maximum exposure of your Brand with minimum costs to your business. They make it easier for journalists to view your latest products and press releases, and share them with the rest of Ireland and beyond.
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Joshua Schachter
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Joshua Schachter is an organizer at Self Racing Cars. He was the CEO of Tasty Labs and the founder of [delicious](/organization/delicious), a popular bookmark-sharing service founded in late 2003, acquired by [Yahoo](/organization/yahoo) in 2005, and acquired by Chad Hurley and Steve Chen's [AVOS Systems](/organization/avos) in 2011. Joshua has also worked for [Google](/organization/google) and he created [geoURL](/organization/geourl), a location-URL reverse directory, and was a co-creator of Memepool.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Japan, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 75
  • Round size: Seed $635k–$5.5M; Angel $1M–$1.5M; Series A $1M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Monid — Monid is an all-in-one tool registry that connects AI agents to over 1,700 tools and APIs through a single integration.
  • Nozomio — An applied AI lab making developer tools and free tech courses. Nozomio: https://t.co/MtOENst8hj Nia AI: https://t.co/fYIuJn09Pv
  • Pilgrim — Pioneering a biologically enhanced future for humanity.
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Armando Biondi
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Armando Biondi currently works as the Co-Founder and CEO for Breadcrumbs.io. He previously worked at Hootsuite as the global head of growth operations.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, Big Data
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Spain, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$2.8M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NewsWhip — NewsWhip is the world's most comprehensive content discovery and analytics database. Their suite of products give customers the ability to predict which stories will be important today, and understand how to create successful content over the long term.NewsWhip serves over 500 of the world's leading publishers, brands and agencies,including: Reebok, the Washington Post, Conde Nast, Google, MasterCard, BuzzFeed, Time Inc., and more. NewsWhip Spike is their real-time, predictive content discovery dashboard — offering a one-stop view of what's important across both the web and 5 social networks. Spike is the only tool that discovers stories within 2 minutes of publishing, and predicts their spread across social.NewsWhip Analytics is a database of how audiences have engaged with stories across every social network over the long term. NewsWhip customers use Analytics to benchmark how they stack up against competitors and track engagement trends around events and seasons.
  • Arrows — Arrows is a customer onboarding checklist. Send every customer a personalized onboarding plan, with automated email reminders, due dates, assigned tasks, and a lot more.One of the hardest things about onboarding is getting everybody on the same page. Using Arrows, you can get "mutual buy-in" from your customers to build trust throughoutthe onboarding process. Plus, with due dates and automated email reminders, they'll always know what should be done next. Arrows is the place for you to collaborate, strategize, and coordinate together.Every customer is different... so why are you giving them the same onboarding plan? With Arrows, personalizing onboarding for your customers is a cinch. Start with a template, so your team never misses important steps. Then customize your plan for each customer, so you can get mutual buy-in on a plan perfectly structured for their goals and timeline.
  • Cloud Campaign — The only white-label SMM platform built to support rapidly growing agencies. Sign up for a free trial to see how Cloud Campaign can transform your business!
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Julian Kulkarni
Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Julian Kulkarni is the Co-Founder and Non Executive Board Director at My Money Jar.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Photo Sharing
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PicStash — They offer a valuable but inexpensive PR tool, ensuring the maximum exposure of your Brand with minimum costs to your business. They make it easier for journalists to view your latest products and press releases, and share them with the rest of Ireland and beyond.
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James Douglas
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

James Douglas - Managing Director @ Morgan Healey

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Events, Software, Publishing
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Ex Ordo — Ex Ordo is a Galway-based software company whose web applications enable research conference organisers to manage successful and career-enhancing events at which researchers can publish papers and collaborate together. Their web applications automate the mundane, time-consuming tasks, saving organisers an average of 15 days, €5 to €15k, overthe life of a conference.
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Ryan Morrison
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Ryan Morrison - Co-Founder and CEO @ Evolved

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Web Apps, Legal Tech
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Ceartas DMCA — Ceartas is the leader in piracy protection for creators, brands & enterprise. Powered by AI, we have the highest removal rate in the industry
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George Kilpatrick
Angel · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

I was once photographed by David Bailey! I also bring to work our therapy dog, Woody, for the Fareham team’s good mental health. And Woody’s lunch.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Video, Collaboration
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Overcast HQ — Overcast is a leading cloud video management solution that simplifies video management, compliance and collaboration for all, securely. Effortlessly organise assets with quick searches, AI tagging, and categorization, ensuring swift access and utilisation across images, videos, documents, and more.
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Anil Kokaram
Angel · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Anil Kokaram

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Video, Collaboration
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Overcast HQ — Overcast is a leading cloud video management solution that simplifies video management, compliance and collaboration for all, securely. Effortlessly organise assets with quick searches, AI tagging, and categorization, ensuring swift access and utilisation across images, videos, documents, and more.
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Brian Caulfield
Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Brian Caulfield is based out of Dublin, Dublin and is the Venture Partner at Molten Ventures and also serves as the Chairman at Barespace. Brian previously worked at Graphcore as Board Oberver. Brian Caulfield attended Trinity College Dublin. Brian has received the Irish Software Association's "Technology Person of the Year" award.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $110k–$7.2M; Angel $1.1M–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Coroflo — The world's first accurate breastfeeding monitor
  • Cicero Networks — Cicero Networks is at the forefront of the wireless Internet revolution, developing solutions for the delivery of Voice over Wireless IP. Cicero’s mission is to harness the power of VoIP to enable the delivery of wireless voice services while maintaining mobility and flexibility for end users at a lower cost.Cicero Networks has focused onbuilding platform-independent solutions which offer operators and service providers a means of delivering high-quality voice services over both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth networks. Its innovative use of wireless technology enables operators to terminate calls to fixed-line or hotspot locations at least cost to subscribers.Cicero Networks was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. Cicero Networks is a privately held company.
  • Clavis Insight — Grow faster, smarter, and more efficiently with Flywheel's suite of digital commerce solutions, purpose-built for the world's leading brands.
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Mehmet Onarcan
Angel · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Mehmet Onarcan is the Founder of Mentors Network Turkey. He previously worked at Project House as an Advisory Board Member - Digital Transformation. Mehmet Onarcan attended Yildiz Technical University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social Media, Apps, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, Germany, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Letz — Letz is a mobile app that lets you find available people for all activities to hang out with.
  • Missafir — Missafir creates value both for homeowners and short/mid term house rental guests. Missafir’s comprehensive services including profile management on more than 15 platforms, dynamic pricing and tech-enabled operational support services enable homeowners to rent their homes through a fast, reliable, high-profit and stress-free model. On theother side, 24/7 service support, concierge and cleaning services, provide 5-star hotel quality experience to the guests.
  • Influanza — Influanza is an influencer marketing platform for startups. Influanza is a marketplace that connects video creators with marketers who want to sponsor their content.
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Tom Preston-Werner
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups

Steve Jang is an individual investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Pre-Seed $337k–$3.1M; Series A $10M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Milestone — Connect AI spend, engineering output, quality, and governance in one platform. See where AI creates value in your engineering org, and where it does not.
  • Strix — Strix is an open-source AI security platform that uses autonomous agents to continuously pentest applications, APIs, and codebases.
  • Sourcetable — Sourcetable connect, sync, and query all the data in a spreadsheet, without needing to know how to code. Founded in 2019, Sourcetable is based in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Media (Entertainment) Angel investor funding in Ireland at a glance

Stats across 44 deals from 87 investors.

87
investors
in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups
44
deals
in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups
$1.1M
median round
in Ireland Media (entertainment) startups
6%
lead investors
lead at least one round
55%
Seed
most common funding stage

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